Recall questions on the family poems in the anthology. Each question requires students to answer with references from the poems: Before You Were Mine, Eden Rock, Climbing My Grandfather, Follower, Walking Away and Mother, any Distance. To be peer-assessed. Teacher answer sheet included.

This resources is a complete exploration of the context, from, language and structure of the poem ‘Sonnet 29- ‘I think of thee!’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This contains the key terminology and multiple interpretations and readings of the poems’ form, language and structure. This covers a couple of lessons and so has starter activities testing students’ recall. The final slides consist of the key quotations that students should remember for the AQA Literature Paper 2 exam.

This is a lesson with additional lessons to continue the exploration of Percey Shelley’s ‘Love Philosophy’. The resource has annotated questions to allow the students to write their own annotations and interpretations but guided. This has the context, form, language and structure completely explored with the key information for students to recall highlighted.

Lessons and resources for the poem ‘Walking Away’ by Cecil Day Lewis. Includes: pre-reading task contextual information reading with vocabulary support summary task with support and challenge differentiated analysis task(s) with prompts exam-style question

Extract and Question in exam format. Can be used as a mock exam or practice for the Shakespeare element of the exam.

Task: Cut out and order the moments in Act 3. Stick them onto an A3 sheet leaving space for key quotations. Challenge: add contextual links. Option: You could get them to plots them onto a tension graph deciding which is the most tense reveal/moment for the audience. 1-2 lessons to complete - can set as homework/ revision to finish.

A complete lesson and resources introducing students to a range of genres and fiction texts. Identifying and analysing writer’s methods in the opening of ‘A Monster Calls’ to convey the gothic genre. Support, challenges and extensions for all activities. Range of activities for all abilities and learning styles. Promotes reading!

A 20 question quiz on the play ‘DNA’. Questions that range and encourage critical thinking.

After an ‘A Christmas Carol’ exam, I realised my year 10s were including any quotations they could remember and trying to squeeze them into their answers rather than selecting the most relevant moments/phrases from the novella. I created this match-up activity for the themes and quotations in ‘A Christmas Carol’. This can be completed quickly by writing the beginning letter of each theme into the quotation box or they can colour code them. I chose colour coding so that it can become a useful revision resource. This can be adapted to add more quotations or this can be done by the students as an extension task. I also extended this task by asking the students what Stave it is from and getting them to explain why this quotation is significant to the theme.

Exam Question Beginning of a level 6 response Activities to finish and self-assess essay using students- friendly success criteria

This lesson checks students’ comprehension of the text as a whole. Goes through the question and mark scheme in detail. Gives the students a task to annotate the extract with colour-coded guidence and a model paragraph before students complete and self-assess the answer. The extract is taken from ‘The Hunger Games’. This is a great introductory lesson to question 4 of Language Paper 1. There is plenty of scaffolding and modelling.

This uses another extract from The Hunger Games where Katniss’ sister Prim is chosen to take part in the games and Katniss volunteers herself. The question looks at the tension built by the writer. The lesson begins with short questions to check the students’ understanding of the extract. Answers given. Then, the slides go through the break-down of the question and mark scheme. The students have an opportunity to practice annotating their ideas, which is scaffolded, before writing their answers using the sentence stems provided. Peer/self/teacher assessed.

Activity to get students to structure their essay according to their introduction making sure their response fully supports their ideas. Students are to read the introduction, identify the points that need to be proven in their essay, add relevant examples from the text and organise their essay into a coherant argument e.g. chronologically through the text. A Christmas Carol and Poetry.

Mini SOW introducing students to Language Paper 2 Part B (writing). The first few lessons focus on understanding, evaluating and making choices about perspective, viewpoints, audience, purpose and tone. The next week of lessons focus on identifying, revising and applying an effective structure for a speech.

Includes: Pre-reading task on Victorian relationships Active reading starter activity with challenges and extension tasks. Recall activity on the poem ‘Before You Were Mine’ to gain an understanding of the similar themes in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ with challenge an extension. The poem is split into nine sections with prompts for thoughtful analysis.